This work focuses on urban Land-Use Transport Interaction (LUTI) modelling
carried out to support the strategic planning process. A LUTI model is
formalized and all modelling components and connections are described. The
model is applied to forecast changes in transport and land use patterns at an
urban strategic scale.
Keywords: Land-Use Transport Interaction, urban modelling.
1 Introduction
Transport systems affect economics and planning of an urban area, conditioning
households and firms location choices, production levels, trade and land use
patterns. Land-Use Transport Interaction (LUTI) modelling can support strategic
planning, policy making, public and private investment decisions.
Many urban LUTI models refer to the Multi-Regional-Input-Output (MRIO)
framework, estimating transport demand, generation and location of activities,
land use, as a result of interaction between a transport system of models and an
activity model. Schematically, the former provide transport supply performances
which affect activity location in the latter; the latter provide the activity system
generation and location which affect transport demand in the former.
The objectives of this work are: definition of a state of the art on LUTI
models, in the part concerning the activity models; formalization of a LUTI
model and description of all modelling components and connections; model
application to forecast changes in transport and land use patterns at an urban
strategic scale.
The paper is articulated in three sections, according to the above objectives.